Fish Boast of Fishing, by Peter Knight

Fish Boast of Fishing

by Peter Knight

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1.	Fish Boast of Fishing 13:35
2.	Unknowness 1 08:08	buy track
3.	Short 1 04:07	buy track
4.	And Men Are Caught By Worms 09:48	buy track
5.	Unknowness 2 10:16	buy track
6.	Short 2 04:47	buy track

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Fish Boast of Fishing is a response to e e cummings' poem 'love's function is to fabricate unknowness'

Music that is unclassifiable. Music that sits somewhere between new jazz, contemporary classical, and minimalism, Fish Boast of Fishing integrates improvisation, composition and electronics to create a new sound.
The initial motivation for this project developed out of a desire to compose a suite of works integrating the improvisatory language of the players comprising the ensemble. It develops a mode of expression that draws on genre and idiom without being defined by either, and compositional structures that create space for each of the players.

love's function is to fabricate unknownness
(known being wishless;but love,all of wishing)
though life's lived wrongsideout,sameness chokes oneness
truth is confused with fact,fish boast of fishing

and men are caught by worms(love may not care
if time totters,light droops,all measures bend
nor marvel if a thought should... more
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released October 7, 2012

Peter Knight - trumpet/laptop
Adam Simmons - bass clarinet/alto saxophone
Erik Griswold - prepared piano
Vanessa Tomlinson - percussion
Frank Di Sario - double bass
Joe Talia - drum kit/Revox tape machine

Produced by Peter Knight
Recorded by Robin Gray
Mixed by Peter Knight and Myles Mumford
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released October 7, 2012

Peter Knight - trumpet/laptop
Adam Simmons - bass clarinet/alto saxophone
Erik Griswold - prepared piano
Vanessa Tomlinson - percussion
Frank Di Sario - double bass
Joe Talia - drum kit/Revox tape machine

Produced by Peter Knight
Recorded by Robin Gray
Mixed by Peter Knight and Myles Mumford

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Peter Knight Melbourne, Australia

I make music using trumpet, tape machines, amplifiers, computers, and sometimes pen and paper. I make music influenced by lots of different sources, and in lots of different settings.

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